P.S. I WAS just being facetious here. Dave Robinson
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From: drobinson at bellarmine.edu [mailto:drobinson at bellarmine.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:03 PM
To: plant-ed at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Subject: stay with Biosci
Well, personally I like spam.
I think Plant-ed helps me keep in touch with new and interesting websites on
human sexuality, as well as the latest in entrepreneurial
opportunities.....isn't that in Plant-ed's charter or something?
Plus, when students visit my office I love to watch their eyes grow wide
when they glance at the Subject line of my emails. They don't look at me as
the campus nerd anymore!
Dave Robinson
-----Original Message-----
From: monroejd at jmu.edu [ mailto:monroejd at jmu.edu <mailto:monroejd at jmu.edu> ]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 9:35 PM
To: plant-ed at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Subject: Re: spam
Plant-eders,
I was hoping the move of BIOSCI ( http://net.bio.net/ <http://net.bio.net/>
) to the UK in '99
and their attempt to electronically filter out spam would have done a
better job than this, but alas it hasn't. We've discussed going to a
moderated format before and I think it is time to consider it again. It
would mean that all messages sent to Plant-ed would come first to me (or
some other moderator) and then the moderator would forward all
legitimate messages to a secret BIOSCI address before they would go to
the list and to the archive. An alternative to moderation at BIOSCI is
to move the entire list to a private listserve. With a listserver there
would be no archiving or ability to search past messages, but it would
free someone of doing the moderation and the conversation might be a bit
more spontaneous.
If you feel strongly one way or another lets hear from you (up to a
point or this conversation will drive people away!) After a few days of
discussion I will post a survey form with several options including no
change, moderation, or moving the group away from BIOSCI.
So don't bail out yet!
Jon
Plant-ed discussion co-leader
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Department of Biology, MSC 7801
James Madison University
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office: 540-568-6649
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email: monroejd at jmu.edu
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